A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Wise people problems, becomes everyone's solution. Foolish people solutions becomes everyone's problem.

Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.

We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor.

I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.

I reject that. I would rather recruit a Racist left winger than a right winger.